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Introduction
Patrick
Colossus Review subscribers, I’m excited to share an exclusive episode with you. This is directors cut of my conversation with Neil Mehta. It is longer and more detailed than the conversation we have published on Invest Like the Best and includes more personal details about Neil that only you will hear. I hope you enjoy it.
I also hope you’ve read Jeremy’s Stern’s Colossus Review profile on Neil by now. If not, I urge you to do so. You can find it on our website, joincolossus.com.
By way of introduction to this conversation, Neil Mehta is the founder of Greenoaks Capital. In 2012, aged 27, Neil left D.E. Shaw to start Greenoaks with his friend Benny Peretz. One of their first investments was in Coupang, a South Korean e-commerce company led by founder Bom Kim. Neil was so convinced of Coupang's potential that he invested 40% of their initial $50 million fund into the company—a bet that eventually returned about $8 billion.